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To: Petz who wrote (84747)	1/3/2000 5:38:00 AM
From: Goutam	Respond to of 1572893

Petz, re:The high-end clearly belongs to the Athlon. 43% of stores are selling Athlon 700 systems, only 20% are selling Floppermines of any variety. Thanks for the summary of systems being sold in San Diego by small computer stores. Based on my experience, for these stores, most of the high end systems business comes from other small businesses and local companies - especially from the engineering segments. Engineering personnel tend to specify their own systems and pick the local small computer stores as they allow more customization. Athlon's 69% penetration into small computer stores is phenomenal when you take into account the Athlon's new architecture, and the initial problems with mother boards supply. In January'00, we should start seeing introduction of newer mother boards based on KX133 and also lower cost mother boards based on AMD's Fester reference board (4 layer board). Here is a link to the review done by Aces on one of such boards for the budget Athlon PCs - aceshardware.com (credits to AMDzone - amdzone.com ) Goutama

To: Petz who wrote (84747)	1/7/2000 3:03:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1572893

Summary of systems being sold in San Diego by small computer stores which build their own computers. Based on advertise- ments in the weekly ComputorEdge flyer -- a free publication in San Diego county, weighted by the number of locations of each company. Small ads advertising a single system excluded, also system configurations without pricing. Pub Date: 1/7 12/31 12/17 12/10 11/19 11/05 10/22 # stores: 35 35 37 34 32 34 32 All Athlon: 71% 69% 62% 68% 66% 62% 50% Ath >=700: 49% 43% 41% 44% 44% 21% 0% Athlon 750: 23% 14% 14% 3% 0% 0% 0% All PIII: 91% 89% 95% 97% 97% 100% 100% Coppermine: 20% 20% 19% 15% 0% 0% 0% CuMine 733: 20% 14% 5% 3% 0% 0% 0% Celeron: 97% 97% 95% 97% 84% 71% 91% K6-2: 71% 66% 73% 71% 72% 82% 81% K6-3: 49% 40% 49% 65% 53% 68% 62% Trends ------ The most notable thing is that Coppermines are still as rare as last week with only 20% penetration. These are all selling the 733, but nothing faster. Meanwhile, Athlon penetration continued to rise to 71%, the highest ever and the Athlon 750 is still easier to find than a Coppermine of any speed (23% vs. 20%) despite the fact that it was launched a month later. I did another check of my data and found this amazing fact: In 20 of 35 locations, an AMD system is the fastest system available (highest clock speed) Petz